CEG Economic Development Week in Review – November 12 – November 16, 2018

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“Albany Can Code, the nonprofit software boot camp training nontraditional students in the region to help close the tech jobs skills gap, is expanding and offering new coding classes this spring in Saratoga County.

The nonprofit is partnering with Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership to offer classes at SUNY Adirondack’s Wilton campus for the spring semester.”

“If it seems like there are new breweries popping up everywhere these days, that’s because there are. New York state has more breweries now than ever in its history, with more than 400 across the state.

The number of breweries in the state has more than doubled in the past five years.”

“A lot has changed since Hudson Valley Community College built its original manufacturing training center in 1953. Now, the college is creating a $17 million center where students will learn to use the latest, computer-controlled equipment expected to power American factories into the future.

When it opens in September 2019, the new 37,000-square-foot, two-story Gene Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing Skills will be seven times larger than the college’s current training facility, said David Larkin, professor of advanced manufacturing technology in the School of Engineering and Industrial Technologies at HVCC.”

“Plans for a new $2 million artificial intelligence technology center are moving forward in downtown Troy.

Rensselaer County has been taking a look at turning the Troy senior center at 19 Third St. into what will be known as the AI Center of Excellence. On Tuesday night, the county legislature voted to transfer the building into the hands of the Rensselaer County Capital Resource Corp., an economic development entity.”

“New York State will spend $250 million to support a seven-year, $880 million semiconductor manufacturing research center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany that will be led by semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials, a top supplier to computer chip companies like GlobalFoundries.

The lab, known as the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator, or META Center, will be located inside 24,000 square feet of NanoFabX, the building that had once housed SUNY Poly’s G450C program that concluded at the end of 2016.”